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WHY POPULISTS CAN'T WIN IN CALIFORNIA
California Political Review ^ | February 3, 2021 | Wayne Lusvardi

Posted on 02/03/2021 9:04:05 AM PST by WLusvardi

Writing in the February 1 issue of the American Conservative, Los Angeles charter school teacher Kurt Hofer, states he believes that “economic populists” can turn California around politically by promoting bread-and-butter issues (“How Populist Conservatives Can Win In (Yes!) California”) as seemingly evidenced by the November 2020 election.

What makes Hofer believe an economically populist message will do the trick in turning around California is that the November 2020 California election irrationally went 64% to 34% for Biden even after Gov. Gavin Newsom wrecked the small business economy by overkill epidemic lockdowns. However, these same voters rejected seven of twelve ballot initiatives that affected people’s pocketbooks and crime and overturning California’s anti-gig economy law. It is easier for the political Left to demonize a conservative politician than it is to change the same voters choices at the ballot box that affect their pocketbook. This is the moral of the story of the California election in November 2020, not some false hope that economic rationality will transform California. California voters have a split personality: economically rational on one side but all-to-gleeful to pillory or symbolically crucify a political outsider who threatens their political sinecures and pensions on the other. Unlike voter initiatives, any notion of changing the political makeup of the state legislature, courts or executive branch solely on bread-and-butter issues is not realistic when it comes to voting for outsider political candidates.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Local News; Religion
KEYWORDS: california; politics; scapegoating; voting

1 posted on 02/03/2021 9:04:05 AM PST by WLusvardi
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To: WLusvardi

Californian voters are just not hurting enough from their policies.


2 posted on 02/03/2021 9:06:57 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: WLusvardi

WHY POPULISTS CAN’T WIN IN CALIFORNIA

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Unfortunately, the same may be true of the US as a whole. If the Left can keep importing voters whose bread is buttered by the Metropolitan, globalist Left, then I’m not sure I see a political way out of this.


3 posted on 02/03/2021 9:07:57 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: WLusvardi

Economic Populist=TRUMP
And HE WON in almost every state.
The GOPee needs to present evidence to Congress, including statistiical evidence and then kick the current regime out OR the GOP is DONE.


4 posted on 02/03/2021 9:09:19 AM PST by doc maverick
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To: WLusvardi

Unlike voter initiatives, any notion of changing the political makeup of the state legislature, courts or executive branch solely on bread-and-butter issues is not realistic when it comes to voting for outsider political candidates.>>>>>>>>

Then what option does that leave the People?

Watch this clip, it us very “apropos” as a reply to these idiots at California Political Review:

Endeavor to persevere! ( Lone Wattie)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRX6hSGeZs4


5 posted on 02/03/2021 9:11:47 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: WLusvardi

California has perfected voter manipulation and electoral fraud to an art form.

Over the last decades they have steadily added measures which allow manipulation or outright fraud - from motor/voter, to immediate registration, to registration of anyone dealing with a DMV or welfare office, to purposeful maintaining dirty, bloated voter rolls, to government paid ballot harvesting - and in 2020, the mother of all, total mail in ballots.

they don’t need to win 99% to 1%, they just need to consistently win 60% to 40% to literally take over everything, and complete the control of politicians, unions, leftist groups and oligarchs

And its all funded by massive debt, massive spending, and massive bubbles.


6 posted on 02/03/2021 9:13:59 AM PST by PGR88
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To: WLusvardi

Nice weather.

Beautiful scenery.

Filled with hobos, drug addicts, criminals and actors.


7 posted on 02/03/2021 9:17:13 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: WLusvardi

Wasn’t Arnold a populist?


8 posted on 02/03/2021 9:19:16 AM PST by rexthecat (nks!)
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To: blueunicorn6
Filled with hobos, drug addicts, criminals and actors.

But you repeat yourself lol.

9 posted on 02/03/2021 9:19:50 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: WLusvardi

Freebies and fraud...too many on the dole.


10 posted on 02/03/2021 9:24:26 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: WLusvardi
"that the November 2020 California election irrationally went 64% to 34% for Biden even after Gov. Gavin Newsom wrecked the small business economy"

Sorry, kids. It ain't who votes, it's who counts them. We'll never know what Trump actually received there.

11 posted on 02/03/2021 9:35:48 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: Bishop_Malachi
As long as the states can borrow money and the Treasury can print it, there will be he[[ to pay (sorry) stopping both political parties from increasing the debt. The progressive's paradise...Financially knowledgeable people I talk to do not understand the current low inflation in a time of burgeoning federal debt. Whether technology, cheap foreign goods, a pandemic economy etc. are the causes, as some have said, I'm not qualified to say.

But as long as we are here at the tax and spenders' picnic, I don't see fiscal conservatives being elected dogcatcher in the states dominated by the metro pits. When the fiscal pain finally hits the fan it will be interesting for those alive to see if America can handle it again, given the cancerous public education and immigration system.

12 posted on 02/03/2021 10:27:23 AM PST by PerConPat ( A politician is a animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground...Mencken)
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To: WLusvardi
Californians believe they can vote themselves into Paradise without having to pay any price for it.

I've lived in California all my life.

13 posted on 02/03/2021 10:30:14 AM PST by Thud
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To: fieldmarshaldj

DemonicRats are like Alcoholics: Recovery does not begin until you hit rock bottom and you have to admit to the problem.

Until that point the addict demands more and more.


14 posted on 02/03/2021 12:15:33 PM PST by CoastWatcher
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To: WLusvardi

because they don’t count the votes


15 posted on 02/03/2021 12:24:07 PM PST by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: CoastWatcher

Although more like locusts. They’ll move in to a decent area, destroy it completely (politically/socially/morally, et al) and then move on to another area, rinse and repeat. No concern or recognition that their own politics are solely responsible for the ruination in the first place. That many are rich that they can insulate themselves from the problems they inflict is what is particularly galling.


16 posted on 02/03/2021 1:20:42 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: WLusvardi

They can’t win...until...suddenly they will. You watch. These old, wealthy white leftists are going to die out. There is an undercurrent you can feel starting to build there. I have talked with several young, intelligent people in the SoCal region - they will tell you that they are afraid to tell people what they really think, for fear of employment problems, but that they find more and more people all the time that think like they do. The young like a slave class to these rich virtue signalers.


17 posted on 02/03/2021 2:16:40 PM PST by Codeflier (Covid-19 taught me: Two types of "conservatives", frightened safety seekers vs. freedom lovers)
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